About the role
We make approximately 12 investments per year, and we move with conviction. As our first investment hire, you will be the engine of our top-of-funnel, finding, attracting, and qualifying the founders we want to back before anyone else. You will also own the analytical work that helps us make great investment decisions.
What they're looking for
- Based in Denver/Boulder, Minneapolis, Austin, Chicago, Salt Lake City, New Mexico or Toronto: you are not on the coasts, and you understand why that matters
- A natural connector who gets energized, not drained, by walking into a room of strangers and starting conversations
- Obsessive about follow-through: you use tools, systems, and tracking to make sure nothing falls through the cracks
- Extreme self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and self-direction, you don’t need to be told what to do next. You’re creative, inventive, and always looking for better ways to do things
- Curiosity is at your core, you want to know how things work and do the research to understand it
- Strong writer and communicator, your memos are concise, your emails get replies, your follow-ups are timely
More about this role
Matchstick Ventures is a $75M early-stage venture capital fund investing at pre-seed and seed in exceptional founders building category-defining companies. We back ambitious software founders “between the coasts” in the US who are building to coastal standards and beyond. This is our fourth fund, and we are a small but mighty team split between Boulder, CO and Minneapolis, MN.
We make approximately 12 investments per year, and we move with conviction. As our first investment hire, you will be the engine of our top-of-funnel, finding, attracting, and qualifying the founders we want to back before anyone else. You will also own the analytical work that helps us make great investment decisions.
You will have direct partner access, broad ownership, and the opportunity to build something. If you are energized by cold outreach, crowded rooms, and the thrill of finding a great company no one else has noticed yet, read on.
- Own top-of-funnel deal flow: build and manage a systematic pipeline of pre-seed and seed companies across our target geographies
- Conduct proactive outbound sourcing via Harmonic, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, cold email, and other channel-appropriate outreach tools,...
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